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Just went on the site and it still says members can only buy 1 ticket. There is going to be thousands of empty seats yet the club are still putting restrictions on who can buy only a few days before - ****ing idiots.

Cortese back? Great idea - all we need first is a billionaire owner willing to throw his money around because the dwarf couldn’t get out of the club quick enough when he found out he was going to have to work to some sort of realistic budget.

Think Toon Saints post sums up our current position perfectly. As for the 3 worst decisions ever, I would go with: 1. Persisting with Pelligrino for so long whilst our Premier League status disappeared before our eyes. It was madness to let him carry on through December but to give him the transfer window, let him blow £20mill on one of his pals, then sack him after the window shuts giving the new guy little chance to change anything makes no sense at all. 2. Appointing Wigley. A crazier appointment than Pelligrino, complete lunacy that this guy was Putin charge of a Premier League football club, ike this season he ****ed up all the winnable home games causing our relegation. At least Lowe acted a bit quicker in sacking him though. 3. Appointing a rugby coach as director of football. I have no issue utilising expertise from other sports but the way Lowe implemented this was nuts.

Same here. I’m not putting another penny into the club until the owners at least have the decency to explain their reason for buying the club and what their plans are.

Everything you need to know about the black box here: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2717975-inside-the-southampton-black-box-informing-their-manager-carousel Some classic mastorbatory bull**** from the clowns in charge at Our club. “Southampton have deliberately cultivated a system that mitigates a manager’s importance, ensuring continuity that can outlast any boss’ tenure. "One of the mistakes many clubs make is they don't commit to a strategy and move the goal posts all the time," Ross Wilson, Southampton's Director of Football Operations and one of the club’s most senior decision-makers, explained ” “At Staplewood, Southampton's £40 million training centre nestled in the leafy Hampshire village of Marchwood, lies the club’s "black box." This room, which only Southampton’s inner circle have permanent access to, is the centrepiece of the club’s forward planning. "It enables us to present a lot of information in a way that keeps everything clear, on message, structured," Wilson said. The black box contains a live database of data and video highlights from European leagues that the club monitor. The rationale is simple: to allow Southampton to identify suitable players to sign.” “The list is always evolving and always current," Wilson explained. Southampton invariably know who they want to sign in the next transfer window. Around 20 players are tracked in each position at any one time, and there is a shortlist of four or five primary targets for each position.” “Reed has a dossier of potential coaches that is constantly updated, with intelligence on those considered the best fits for Southampton—especially handy when managers leave during their contracts, as happened in 2014 and 2016. There were only nine days between Puel's being sacked and Pellegrino's being confirmed as his replacement, showing how the dossier enables the club to act decisively in appointing new managers.” “Pellegrino was identified as a manager in keeping with the "Southampton Way" for his track record of promoting young players and playing attacking, technically proficient football. From his time in Spain, Pellegrino is also well-versed operating as part of a wider executive structure like that at Southampton. Any new manager "needs to be a fit to the philosophy of that organisation or that football club," Wilson explained. "When we appoint a manager here, we want that manager to be somebody that fits in with what we do here." This continuity of approach also ensures that existing intelligence gathered through the black-box will remain useful for the new boss.”

**** off

Spot on.

Good plan. The only flaw I can see is the fact that we are not very good at football.

That’s the point, it’s not because she’s flogged us to a bunch of Chinese criminals without a thought for the future of our club at all. That’s why she’s just a greedy fat **** in my opinion.

Reed, Kruger, Fat Kat, Gao - all ****ing cowards.

Would be nice if someone from the club had the decency to inform us as to how bad the financial situation will be next year, it’s us ****s that will be asked to chuck money in a bucket if it all goes tits up again.

Persisting with Pellegrino for so long was just plain bonkers. Proper Kamakazee stuff.

Fat Kat has sold us down the river, just have to hope Gao doesn’t do a Pompey on us.

**** it, that’s curtains for us now.

Just seen the other teams fixtures for tomorrow! **** me, lose to Chelsea and we might be 6 adrift by the end of the day. That’s game over.

Not sure £30 is too expensive for the average Chelsea fan.

Doubt it will sell out, Chelsea hasn’t and that’s usually more popular. Think the West Ham game killed it for many fans.

Just looked at the ticket site and there is still loads left in the lower tier, plus thousands in the upper, yet there is still restrictions on who can buy. What a ****ing shambles. By now anyone who wants tickets should be able to buy as many as they want. Think the club has delusions of grandeur from the top down.

I disagree. I think if you stumped up for a ST to watch that ****e all season you deserve to be able to pick and choose should they somehow manage to fluke their way to the final.

England have been playing with a back three so Bertrand might be keen to show he can play that role as well. I’d be tempted to go three at the back, McQueen and Cedric wing backs, Lemina, PH and Romeo in the middle and Long and Austin up front.

Is not wanting to go not a legitimate reason?

Same in principle though, we’re being told by a government with an agenda that there is evidence but we are not allowed to see it and it turned out there wasn’t any. Wether it is the same people or agency is irrelevant - we were lied to before so it makes sense to be sceptical this time around. It obviously probably was Russia but the type of agent used is far from being proof. You don’t have to be a conspiracy nut to know that despite what our resident simpleton thinks.

Is that the same must know as the Iraqi WMDs or more must know?

What, that it is military grade and could be manufactured by any country with the resources?

We couldn't have had a worse January window if we tried. The worse thing is the guy we spent £20mill on is not even better than the strikers we have so after going into January staring relegation in the face, in desperate need to strengthen - all we have done is get rid one of the world's best central defenders.